Vanilla Fudge

You never knew when he would leave.

[laughs] So thanks to his hit song, Remember, Shadow spent two years working for Leiber and Stoller until he moved away from girl groups and focused on other artists, like folk singer Janis Ian, which fantastic, and Long Island's Vanilla Fudge with their biggest hit, a cover of The Supremes, uh, You Keep Me Hanging On.

Yeah, and it's incredible.

It is fantastic.

Like, if you listen to his version...

Actually, do...

Can we play the, um, You Just Keep Me Hangin' On by Vanilla Fudge?

Oh, we got to.

you were in

the movie but i And I was like, dude, I love Vanilla Fudge.

I saw you guys at PNC, and we were talking about drumming shit and all that stuff.

But I was like, yeah, I really wanted to sign this because it's one of my fucking favorite, like, heavy metal horror movies of all time.

And it's like,

dude, dude, like...

Yeah, dude, like, he was the fucking drummer for Vanilla Fudge, and he was touring with, like, all the huge bands from the 60s and 70s, and, like, to be like, oh, this fucking kid recognizes me from this fucking movie where I did, like, two parts in.

Yeah,

Yeah.

Well, did they still have, did they have the Vanilla Fudge management at that time?

Yes, yes.

[laughs]

Stewart's the sole songwriter on the track, and as I said, kind of a rocker reminiscent of what he used to do with Faces.

Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice was a recent addition to Stewart's band, and played on the drums, and, uh, took a very, uh, upfront, as you can tell in this song, uh, position on this song.

Rod Stewart used to make videos years before there was MTV because videos for his singles were played on the many outlets in Europe that showed them.

Uh, so there was a video for this song.

Amazing.

My senior prom, Vanilla Fudge.

[laughs]

This was in my, this was my little area.

It, like, it has some fidelity challenges, and yet they knew what they were doing, and they knew how to present the material in a really good way.

Another contemporary that I, I had kind of forgotten about was Vanilla Fudge.

Mm.

And their big song was the cover of You Keep Me Hangin' On.

But it still, in my mind, does not qualify as heavy metal.

That's an opinion, obviously.

Little peek behind the curtain, Adam included a Vanilla Fudge track on the focus list.

And maybe we're gonna get to it later, Adam, but I'll just say, like, that actually did help contextualize this, because I was immediately like, "Oh, this goes harder."

yeah.

Well, Vanilla Fudge.

Yeah, yeah.

Tim Bover.

I'm talking in there.

Mick Mars, Dave Micconetti, Dave Murray, Vince Neal, Ted Nugent, Eddie Ojeda, Jeff Pilsen, Donald Buckdarm, Roser, Claude Schnell, always fun, Neil Sean from Journey, Paul Shortino, rough cut, Derek Smalls, final tap, Adrian Smith, Mark Stein from Vanilla Fudge.

I don't know how he slipped in there.

Jeff Tate from Queensryche and Matt Thor from Rough Cut.

however you want

... you know, what I put down, um, on the list was, was Vanilla Fudge.

And, and, uh, Vanilla Fudge, Vanilla Fudge, the album Vanilla Fudge, um, is a great album.

Um, but the album that I used to listen to, um, um, I suppose in that sort of really early out of it, so, you know, getting out of it, like smoking dope or taking acid-

Right

... or whatever, um, was their album, uh, Rock'n'Roll, which, um, I don't think I put that on the list.

I just put Vanilla Fudge, Vanilla Fudge.

Right.